Review: Ferrari F12 Berlinetta

We’ve come to Ferrari’s Fiorano test circuit, near the factory in Maranello, to drive the F12 Berlinetta, the company’s new two-seat, front-engine, 12-cylinder GT.

At the moment I’m reorganizing my own viscera with some high-energy cornering and braking so hard at the famous hairpin I’m making myself sneeze. A suction-mounted GoPro camera I had stuck to the driver’s door has been spun off into Albania.

Ferrari says the F12 is its quickest, most powerful and most dynamic street car to date: 740 horsepower, a top speed of 212 miles per hour, and zero to 124 mph in 8.5 seconds, which is about as quick as an all-wheel-drive Bugatti Veyron.

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